Death Coil conditions

[Happy Harris]

Hi.
I was making a map last night. I completed a lot and was on fire but then i ran into a huge problem for myself, i wanted death coil(casted by death knight) to not consider undead or human status but to work as a heal to allies and a nuke to enemies.

Googling this problem resulted in half an hour of woe, then 2 hours of learning jazz... I guess writing the fix in jazz would be a simple fix.. but is there no way to do it in the unit settings?

BTW: I didn't learn much jazz, a re-read is in order with that subject.

Any help would be highly appreciated or a wild goose chase with a pot of gold at the end is fine, anyway i find out is fine

 

[Dr. Boom]

Seas =)

1) You need a ability like Storm Bolt - change damage to 0 / stunt to 0.01 / and everything you want.

2) Set the allowed targets of this ability to: Air, Enemy, Friend, Ground

3) Create the following Trigger

• Dead Coil
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to "Your Created Ability"
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • ((Target unit of ability being cast) belongs to an ally of (Owner of (Casting unit))) Equal to True
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Set life of (Target unit of ability being cast) to ((Life of (Target unit of ability being cast)) + "Amount you want")
      • Else - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • ((Target unit of ability being cast) belongs to an ally of (Owner of (Casting unit))) Equal to False
          • Then - Actions
            • Unit - Set life of (Target unit of ability being cast) to ((Life of (Target unit of ability being cast)) - "Amount you want")
          • Else - Actions

So you can create a "fake deathcoil"

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

afaik that's why people base an ability on a specific ability cause you can'd do everything with everything. I.e you can't lend life to a friendly unit with Drain Life, you can't coil a friendly non-undead as a heal. The coil is not made to be healing a non-undead. If thats what you ask.

 

[Happy Harris]

Thank you Dr. Boom for your precise reply. Not as simple as i thought but simple in the end

 

[M4stah]

I'd like to add to Dr. Boom that using a 0.01 stun interrupts channeling spells like blizzard, eartquake and others. I suggest using the channel ability.
If you have never used it before read this tutorial, its under number 20.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Other abilities like parasite, curse or slow will also do as their buffs do not inturrupt.

I completed a lot and was on fire

I do not see how you combusting has anything to do with the problem.

Unit - Set life of (Target unit of ability being cast) to ((Life of (Target unit of ability being cast)) - "Amount you want")
Do not use this, it will ignore spell resistance and if it kills a unit will not credit the kill to the hero and so no player will gain gold or EXP from the kill.

Much rather use the Unit - Damage unit action as that can deal damage from a unit and so credit kills to a unit. Also it can be reduced like normal spells.